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<span class=large>THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES</span>
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CHAPTER 13
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Saul and Barnabas called to missionary service—Saul, now Paul, curses a sorcerer—Christ came of the seed of David—Paul offers the gospel to Israel, then to the Gentiles.
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Now</span> there were in the church that was at Antioch certain <sup>a</sup><a href="acts/13/1a" mark="a" type="C" title="Acts 11: 27; TG Church Organization.">prophets</a> and teachers; as Barnabas, and Simeon that was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, which had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.
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As they ministered to the Lord, and <sup>a</sup><a href="acts/13/2a" mark="a" type="C" title="Luke 5: 35; TG Fasting.">fasted</a>, the <sup>b</sup><a href="acts/13/2b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Holy Ghost, Gifts of.">Holy</a> Ghost said, <sup>c</sup><a href="acts/13/2c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Setting Apart.">Separate</a> me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have <sup>d</sup><a href="acts/13/2d" mark="d" type="B" title="TG Called of God.">called</a> them.
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And when they had fasted and prayed, and <sup>a</sup><a href="acts/13/3a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Authority; TG Priesthood, Authority.">laid</a> <i>their</i> <sup>b</sup><a href="acts/13/3b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Hands, Laying on of; TG Priesthood, Ordination.">hands</a> on them, they sent <i>them</i> away.
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&#182; So they, being sent forth by the Holy Ghost, departed unto Seleucia; and from thence they sailed to Cyprus.
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And when they were at Salamis, they preached the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews: and they had also John to <i>their</i> minister.
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And when they had gone through the isle unto Paphos, they found a certain <sup>a</sup><a href="acts/13/6a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Sorcery.">sorcerer</a>, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name <i>was</i> Bar-jesus:
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Which was with the deputy of the country, Sergius Paulus, a <sup>a</sup><a href="acts/13/7a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Prudence.">prudent</a> man; who called for Barnabas and Saul, and desired to hear the word of God.
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But Elymas the sorcerer (for so is his name by interpretation) withstood them, seeking to turn away the deputy from the faith.
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Then Saul, (who also <i>is called</i> Paul,) filled with the <sup>a</sup><a href="acts/13/9a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Holy Ghost, Gifts of.">Holy</a> Ghost, set his eyes on him,
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And said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief, <i>thou</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="acts/13/10a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Jn. 3: 10 (10-18); Alma 11: 23.">child</a> of the devil, <i>thou</i> <sup>b</sup><a href="acts/13/10b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Enemies.">enemy</a> of all <sup>c</sup><a href="acts/13/10c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Righteousness.">righteousness</a>, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?
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And now, behold, the hand of the Lord <i>is</i> upon thee, and thou <sup>a</sup><a href="acts/13/11a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 19: 11.">shalt</a> be <sup>b</sup><a href="acts/13/11b" mark="b" type="A" title="Alma 30: 49 (48-60).">blind</a>, not seeing the sun for a season.  And immediately there fell on him a mist and a darkness; and he went about seeking some to lead him by the hand.
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Then the deputy, when he saw what was done, believed, being astonished at the doctrine of the Lord.
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Now when Paul and his company loosed from Paphos, they came to Perga in Pamphylia: and <sup>a</sup><a href="acts/13/13a" mark="a" type="A" title="Acts 15: 37 (36-40).">John</a> departing from them returned to Jerusalem.
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&#182; But when they departed from Perga, they came to Antioch in Pisidia, and went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and sat down.
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And after the reading of the law and the prophets the rulers of the synagogue sent unto them, saying, <i>Ye</i> men <i>and</i> brethren, if ye have any word of exhortation for the people, say on.
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Then Paul stood up, and beckoning with <i>his</i> hand said, Men of Israel, and ye that <sup>a</sup><a href="acts/13/16a" mark="a" type="A" title="Moro. 7: 3 (3-4).">fear</a> God, give audience.
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The God of this people of Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they dwelt as <sup>a</sup><a href="acts/13/17a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Strangers.">strangers</a> in the land of Egypt, and with an high arm brought he them out of it.
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And about the time of forty years suffered he their manners in the wilderness.
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And when he had <sup>a</sup><a href="acts/13/19a" mark="a" type="A" title="Num. 21: 3 (1-3); Ps. 80: 8 (8-10).">destroyed</a> seven nations in the <sup>b</sup><a href="acts/13/19b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Israel, Land of.">land</a> of Chanaan, he divided their land to them by lot.
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And after that he gave <i>unto them</i> judges about the space of four hundred and fifty years, until Samuel the prophet.
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And afterward they desired a king: and God gave unto them Saul the son of Cis, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, by the space of forty years.
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And when he had removed him, he raised up unto them David to be their king; to whom also he gave testimony, and said, I have found David the <i>son</i> of Jesse, a man after mine own <sup>a</sup><a href="acts/13/22a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Heart.">heart</a>, which shall fulfil all my will.
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Of this man’s <sup>a</sup><a href="acts/13/23a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Jesus Christ, Davidic Descent of.">seed</a> hath God according to <i>his</i> <sup>b</sup><a href="acts/13/23b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Promises.">promise</a> raised unto Israel a <sup>c</sup><a href="acts/13/23c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Jesus Christ, Savior.">Saviour</a>, Jesus:
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When John had first preached before his coming the baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.
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And as John fulfilled his course, he said, Whom think ye that I am?  I am not <i>he.</i>  But, behold, there cometh one after me, whose shoes of <i>his</i> feet I am not worthy to loose.
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Men <i>and</i> brethren, children of the stock of <sup>a</sup><a href="acts/13/26a" mark="a" type="A" title="Abr. 2: 9 (9-10).">Abraham</a>, and whosoever among you feareth God, to you is the word of this salvation sent.
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For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath day, they have fulfilled <i>them</i> in condemning <i>him.</i>
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And though they found no cause of death <i>in him,</i> yet desired they Pilate that he should be <sup>a</sup><a href="acts/13/28a" mark="a" type="A" title="Matt. 27: 20; Acts 3: 13.">slain</a>.
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And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took <i>him</i> down from the tree, and laid <i>him</i> in a sepulchre.
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But God raised him from the dead:
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And he was <sup>a</sup><a href="acts/13/31a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Jesus Christ, Appearances, Postmortal.">seen</a> many days of them which came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his <sup>b</sup><a href="acts/13/31b" mark="b" type="A" title="Acts 10: 39 (39-43); Acts 22: 15 (14-16).">witnesses</a> unto the people.
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And we declare unto you glad tidings, how that the promise which was made unto the <sup>a</sup><a href="acts/13/32a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Family, Patriarchal.">fathers</a>,
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God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that he hath raised up Jesus again; as it is also written in the second psalm, Thou art my <sup>a</sup><a href="acts/13/33a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Jesus Christ, Divine Sonship.">Son</a>, this day have I begotten thee.
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And as concerning that he raised him up from the dead, <i>now</i> no more to return to corruption, he said on this wise, I will give you the <sup>a</sup><a href="acts/13/34a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 55: 3.">sure</a> mercies of David.
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Wherefore he saith also in another <i>psalm,</i> Thou shalt not suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
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For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption:
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But he, whom God <sup>a</sup><a href="acts/13/37a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Jesus Christ, Resurrection.">raised</a> again, saw no <sup>b</sup><a href="acts/13/37b" mark="b" type="A" title="Acts 2: 27 (27, 31).">corruption</a>.
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&#182; Be it known unto you therefore, men <i>and</i> brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the <sup>a</sup><a href="acts/13/38a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Forgiveness; TG Jesus Christ, Atonement through; TG Jesus Christ, Redeemer; TG Remission of Sins.">forgiveness</a> of sins:
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And by him all that believe are <sup>a</sup><a href="acts/13/39a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Justification.">justified</a> from all things, from which ye could not be <sup>b</sup><a href="acts/13/39b" mark="b" type="A" title="Rom. 2: 13.">justified</a> by the <sup>c</sup><a href="acts/13/39c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Law of Moses.">law</a> of Moses.
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Beware therefore, lest that come upon you, which is spoken of in the prophets;
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Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I work a work in your days, a <sup>a</sup><a href="acts/13/41a" mark="a" type="A" title="Hab. 1: 5; 3 Ne. 21: 9 (9-11).">work</a> which ye shall in no wise believe, though a man declare it unto you.
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And when the Jews were gone out of the synagogue, the Gentiles besought that these words might be preached to them the next <sup>a</sup><a href="acts/13/42a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Sabbath.">sabbath</a>.
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Now when the congregation was broken up, many of the Jews and religious <sup>a</sup><a href="acts/13/43a" mark="a" type="A" title="Acts 2: 10.">proselytes</a> followed Paul and Barnabas: who, speaking to them, persuaded them to continue in the grace of God.
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&#182; And the next sabbath day came almost the whole city together to hear the word of God.
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But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with <sup>a</sup><a href="acts/13/45a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Envy.">envy</a>, and spake <sup>b</sup><a href="acts/13/45b" mark="b" type="A" title="Luke 11: 52; 1 Thes. 2: 16.">against</a> those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and <sup>c</sup><a href="acts/13/45c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Blasphemy.">blaspheming</a>.
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Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the <sup>a</sup><a href="acts/13/46a" mark="a" type="A" title="Matt. 21: 43; Luke 14: 24 (21-24); Acts 28: 28 (27-28).">Gentiles</a>.
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For so hath the Lord commanded us, <i>saying,</i> I have set thee to be a <sup>a</sup><a href="acts/13/47a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Example.">light</a> of the Gentiles, that thou shouldest be for <sup>b</sup><a href="acts/13/47b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Jesus Christ, Savior; TG Salvation.">salvation</a> unto the ends of the earth.
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And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord: <sup>a</sup><a href="acts/13/48a" mark="a" type="H" title="JST Acts 13: 48  . . .  and as many as believed were ordained unto eternal life.">and</a> as many as were ordained to eternal life believed.
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And the word of the Lord was <sup>a</sup><a href="acts/13/49a" mark="a" type="A" title="D&C 1: 6.">published</a> throughout all the region.
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But the Jews <sup>a</sup><a href="acts/13/50a" mark="a" type="A" title="Alma 27: 2 (2, 12).">stirred</a> up the devout and honourable <sup>b</sup><a href="acts/13/50b" mark="b" type="A" title="Acts 17: 4 (4, 12).">women</a>, and the chief men of the city, and raised <sup>c</sup><a href="acts/13/50c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Persecution.">persecution</a> against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them out of their coasts.
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But they shook off the <sup>a</sup><a href="acts/13/51a" mark="a" type="A" title="Matt. 10: 14 (14-15); Luke 10: 11; Acts 18: 6 (5-6); D&C 24: 15; D&C 60: 15 (13-15).">dust</a> of their feet against them, and came unto Iconium.
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And the disciples were filled with joy, and with the Holy Ghost.
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